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Nuclear Weapons

Something Brewing in Iran

February 1, 2010

A couple of stories that have surfaced today make me wonder if something is brewing in Iran. First, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced yesterday that Iran would “deliver a harsh blow to the ‘global arrogance’ on this year’s anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.” The anniversary, which takes place on February 11, marks the beginning of [...]

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Hillary Clinton: Talking to Iran Didn’t Work

December 16, 2009

Iran is on the verge of developing a nuclear bomb, and all we’ve been doing for the past 11 months of the Obama Administration is trying to talk without preconditions. Well, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton now admits that talking has basically yielded jack:

Now, to be fair, the Bush administration wasn’t doing much more than [...]

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Why The United Nations is Useless

October 5, 2009

Conservatives for years have been contending that the United Nations is a useless, ineffective organization that caters to dictators and rogue nations. In an interview yesterday International Atomic Energy Agency (an independent organization that reports to the UN) director-general Mohamed ElBaradei spoke about the security in the Middle East. He also identified what he saw [...]

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U.N. Chasing a Dream

September 24, 2009

Members of the United Nations Security Council put their differences aside earlier today and passed a resolution committing themselves to a world without nuclear weapons. Not only was the vote overwhelming, it was unanimous. Even Russia and China agreed to pursue a situation in which they get rid of their weapons.
Today’s vote tells us that [...]

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Obama on Iran: Trust ‘Em, While Isolating Israel

June 2, 2009

Our Leader has spoken (fast-forward to 2:26 for this money-quote, then his naivety on display thereafter):
“Iran has legitimate energy concerns, legitimate aspirations…”
Has anyone informed the Beneficent One that we tried this same appeasement approach to a belligerent nation seeking nuclear “energy” in the past? That would have been North Korea! But at least when NK was bamboozling [...]

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Trying the Same Thing Repeatedly With North Korea Expecting Different Results

May 26, 2009

Some say the definition of insanity is to try the same thing repeatedly expecting different results. That just about sums up the cumulative foreign policy of the last three administrations on dealing with North Korea. On Sunday, North Korea announced that it had conducted a successful nuclear test (which the available data confirms), and also [...]

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